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The annual meeting of member states of the European Network for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training, EQAVET, took place in Brussels on 13-14 June 2024. The meeting was attended by 78 representatives of National Reference Points (NRPs) from 33 countries. From Greece, Mr Antonios Glaros, Head of the Communication and Development Directorate of EOPPEP and member of the EQAVET steering committee, participated at the meeting.

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A webinar of the EQAVET network entitled: “Creating a quality culture in VET – Trends and developments in quality assurance for VET providers” was held online on 26.10.2023. On behalf of the European Commission, General Secretariat for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Mr. Koen Bois d’ Enghien addressed a greeting, stressing that the webinar is part of the actions of the European Year of Skills and in particular takes place in the framework of the European Skills Week for Vocational Education and Training.

On July 27, 2023, the Directorate of Communication & Development and in particular the Department of the National Quality System of EOPPEP conducted with great success an international online workshop/webinar on “Development of Quality Assurance Methodology for Initial Vocational Training Study Programs & Pilot Implementation Results”, within the framework of the activities of the approved proposal “EPOS VET”, implemented by EOPPEP as the National Reference Point of the European Network for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training EQAVET, under the program “ERASMUS+ EQAVET NRPs 2021-2023”. Official greetings were addressed by Mr. Kasaras Konstantinos, on behalf of the General Secretariat…

The 9th and final for 2022, EQAVET Peer Review Meeting, organized by the Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI), took place online on 07 and 08 of December 2022, coordinated and supported by EQAVET Secretariat. Representatives of the EQAVET national reference points from Austria, Croatia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Greece participated, with E.O.P.P.E.P. being the designated (law 4115/2013) national reference point of the network.

Following the implementation of Peer Reviews held within the framework of the European EQAVET network, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung – BIBB), which is the National Reference Point (NRP) of Germany, hosted a meeting in Bonn on 14 and 15 November 2022. The topic of the meeting was “Quality Assurance in Continuing Vocational Training: the cases of distance learning, federal continuing training regulations and the conditions for the implementation of programs funded by national resources”.

A Peer Review meeting of the European network EQAVET was hosted by the Istituto Nazionale per l’Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (INAPP)

An initial hybrid Technical Meeting was held at E.O.P.P.E.P. premises, at the Library’s multiplex, on 28.07.2022, with the aim of presenting and discussing the main points of the deliverable, “Development of Quality Assurance Methodology of Initial Vocational Training Programs” and the proposed pilot implementation in two (2) new / innovative specialties. The above mentioned are integral part of the activities of Work Package 3, (WP 3): Development of a QA Methodology and Research on new/innovative IVET Programs, of the approved proposal “Towards an Enhanced Post -Covid VET, EPOS VET”, Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EQAVET-IBA Project Nr: 101048314, which is implemented by E.O.P.P.E.P. as the…

In the context of fostering communication activities, in terms of the proposal “Towards an Enhanced Post – covid VET, EPOS – VET”, which is implemented by E.O.P.P.P.E.P. in the framework of EQAVET and the ERASMUS + program, you can visit our new page on linkedin: EPOS VET- Towards an enhanced Post Covid VET: About | LinkedIn

On 9 and 10 June 2022, the EQAVET Annual Meeting was held in person in Paris, after two years of on-line meetings, due to the pandemic, in which EOPPEP participated, as the designated (law 4115/2013) National Reference National Point. The meeting, which was organised and coordinated by the European Commission and the Secretariat of the EQAVET Network, was attended by representatives of National Reference Points (NRPs) from 24 member states as well as members of the European Commission, the European Training Foundation (ETF), CEDEFOP, representatives of the Social Partners and experts.